"The pro-natalist goal, after all, is not to make mothers happier. It is merely to make them more numerous."
An excellent clear-sighted review from @MoiraDonegan in @bookforum
In the new @bookforum, I wrote about pro-natalism, the liberals who love it, and the rise of the childless woman as a symbol of decadence & object of contempt that stands in for a meaningful reckoning with motherhood's contradictions. bookforum.com/print/3102/bab…
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Lush to be featured in the latest @SeasideGothic , writing through otherness and distance in my essay The Jellyfish.
Seb signs off his letter beautifully...and I borrow it here...
Yours from the water's edge, E
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I tend to have the radio on when I'm home alone for long periods, mainly for the noise. What a joy, then, to stumble upon this project, and to listen to the new ways that artists and writers are playing with the medium. It's only day 1 and I am already hooked. 📻
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"They are far in that they belong to lost worlds, to bioregions and lifeways now irrevocably altered. They are close to us in that they know world-loss."
Thinking about language and climate change, and revisiting this amazing essay in @TheWhiteReview
thewhitereview.org/feature/s…
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I love this. For me, it's the Cow Parsley that seems to be taking over every available uncut and inaccessible public space, next to the railway tracks and at the edges of footpaths. Thick white and dense as bracken. Welcome back.
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Thanks @Requiem102 for the chance to write on one of my favourite films, and for thinking up the Minute 9 series. It has sparked such a variety of interpretations, some forthcoming and others (like mine) available on @3ammagazine
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I have a short essay on the work of Joanna Piotrowska in the latest issue of @ThePomegranateM -- a more experimental piece for me, playing with the usually rigid form of the object label.
It's a piece about the illusion of the domestic as a safe/feminine space.
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"Scylla" is one of my absolute favourite paintings @Tate. An essay about baths, landscapes, multiple bodies and the amazing Ithell Colquhoun.
Thanks @LucyWriters and especially @hhgsparkles for supporting.
#surrealism #artwriting
lucywritersplatform.com/2023…
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So enjoyed Rene Matić's show 'upon this rock' at @SLG_artupdates, a nuanced and open-hearted exploration of 'Britishness' working against the current trend toward a narrow minded bolstering of national(istic) identities
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I wrote about the weight of the inherited image and how this is questioned and disrupted by the work of Jonny Briggs. Published in L'Essenziale Studio Journal V.4 in Italian and English. #amwriting #artwriting
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🦞 🦞 delighted to be nominated for Best of the Net 🦞 🦞
You can read our nominated work below, and thank you to all of our contributors.
tinymolecules.com/awards
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Vespertine was the album that really spoke to me, a friend described it as a tender hug of a record ♡
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"If before, speaking properly was a part of class assimilation and therefore an attempt to survive in these grand settings, then after, she knows that speaking properly did nothing to protect her."
Brilliant Prima Facie review,
thinking about how you speak allows you to speak
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So excited to be presenting at this online conference. I'll be looking at the work of Lieko Shiga, and thinking through how photography can be used to explore how place is felt. @womentalkplace
womentalkplace.com/2022/05/2…
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I wrote this thing which I thought was about cycling through Uist but really it's what it feels like to be moving through and the relationship between landscape and body. Thanks @seeyouelsewhere and @underagreysky #amwriting
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What a lush question. Here are two from larger series I find inspiring, I hope they are fruitful for you!
Chloe Dewe Matthews Thames Log (2021)
Francis Mortimer's Seascapes (ca. 1930s)
Both suggest very different relationships between humans and water.
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Stunning essay by @brdemuth in @GrantaMag entwinging person, people, Whale, history and how we tell stories. granta.com/on-mistaking-whal…
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So so happy that @TinyMolecules published my lil thoughts about The Lobster, in its many different guises 🦞 thanks @HarrysunSee for all your support.
"What a cacophony of feasting and delight! How at home it looks, among all those other signs of wealth and prosperity, its reddish tinge set against lemon peelings and glassy green grapes."
New essay: 'Following the Lobster' by Emma Jones
tinymolecules.com/emma-jones
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Fantastic piece of writing on the work of Paula Rego, a far more complicated figure than 'feminist icon'. Encapsulates an emotional response to her work that I imagine is felt by many (myself included!) mapmagazine.co.uk/a-feminist…
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